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ThroughIgnorance,Tamara Lindemanhas remade whatThe Weather Stationsounds like, using the occasion of a new record to create a novel sonic landscape, tailor-made to express an emotional idea.Ignoranceis sensuous, ravishing, as hi-fi a record as Lindeman has ever made, breaking into pure pop at moments, at others a dense wilderness of notes; a deeply rhythmic and painful record that feels more urgent and clear than her work ever has. The natural world is everywhere on this record, intruding with force and poignancy.
Ignorancebegan when Lindeman became obsessed with rhythm; specifically straight rhythm, dance rhythm, those achingly simple beats that had never showed up on aWeather Stationalbum before. Embracing straight time opened new musical territory for her; “I saw how the less emotion there was in the rhythm, the more room there was for emotion in the rest of the music, the more freedom I had vocally.” She began to envision a band and music as a sort of bedrock, a structure firm enough to hold the vulnerability of the songs.
The lyrics acrossIgnoranceroil with conflict. The narrator confronts characters who turn away from love. “I used to be an actor, now I’m a performer,” Lindeman says. In those roles she often finds herself to be the subject of projection, reflecting back the ideas and emotions of others. In turn, the album cover shows Lindeman laying in the woods, wearing a hand made suit covered in mirrors. ThroughoutIgnorance, she sings of trying to wear the world as a kind of ill fitting, torn garment, dangerously cold; “it does not keep me warm / I cannot ever seem to fasten it” and of walking the streets in it, so disguised and exposed.
- Robber
- Atlantic
- Tried To Tell You
- Parking Lot
- Loss
- Separated
- Wear
- Trust
- Heart
- Subdivisions
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